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Get Out of the Building!

Interviewing 100 stakeholders in 5 weeks has reshaped how I think of cleantech innovation- and research. Our eCalCharge startup was initially founded to commercialize the research of my labmate Caroline LeFloch on load shaping and frequency regulation using electric vehicles.  » Read More

Posted in Activities on June 2, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment
View of sunset in Seattle

American Controls Conference Recap

Last week I attended the American Controls Conference, an academic conference focused on classical controls and optimization. While this was the first time I had attended, this is one of biggest conferences for the eCAL lab’s research,  » Read More

Posted in Optimization on May 31, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment
Me standing in front of the Capitol building

Lobbying Congress for Science

After finishing my qualifying exams, I had just a few days at home before leaving for the East Coast to take part in the Coalition for National Science Funding’s Exhibition Day on Capitol Hill. Part of a contingent with representation from 5 of the University of California campuses,  » Read More

Posted in Activities on May 20, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment
Examination table with food and presentation on screen

Qualifying Exams – Done!

Every PhD student dreads Qualifying Exams, the big checkpoint en route to the dissertation. In Berkeley’s college of engineering, they have particular weight: as there isn’t a thesis defense, the 3-hour oral Qualifying Exams is the one big check on your research progress.  » Read More

Posted in Activities on May 10, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment
Happiness level as a startup progresses towards product-market fit.

NSF Innovation-Corps Kickoff

I just got back from 3 hurried days in San Diego for the kickoff of the Innovation Corps training, an entrepreneurship bootcamp for university researchers funded by the National Science Foundation with the goal of improving the commercialization of NSF-funded research.  » Read More

Posted in Activities on April 30, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment

Suncode 2017 Reflections

Every year I look forwards to the Suncode hackathon, organized by the Powerhouse solar incubator in Oakland, CA. Participating in the 2015 Suncode hackathon gave me the courage to help organize the Cleanweb Berkeley hackathon, and taught me an immense amount about the solar industry.  » Read More

Posted in Coding on April 10, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment

New paper: Decentralized Microgrid Controls

Solar panels, electric vehicles, smart appliances, and storage systems are rewriting the electricity production landscape. When used intelligently, these Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) can reduce cost, improve reliability, and help fight global warming by integrating more renewable energy into the electricity grid.  » Read More

Posted in Blockchains, Economics, Energy, Optimization on April 4, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment

Blockchains, Trustlessness, and Game Theory

Blockchains are often described as “trustless”:  this doesn’t mean that they can’t be trusted- but instead that the users don’t have to trust each other. In many applications, this is what sets them apart from conventional technologies- the lack of a centralized figure like a bank,  » Read More

Posted in Blockchains, Economics on March 23, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment

A Utility Model of Blockchains

Blockchains are fascinating- a platform for robust, immutable, and trustless data storage and computation. But they’re also cumbersome- slow, inefficient, and expensive. So when are blockchains the right solution for a problem? Blockchains are not a magical new type of computing.  » Read More

Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2017 by emunsing. Leave a comment

Build Your Own Blockchain: A Python Tutorial

Download the full Jupyter/iPython notebook from Github here

Build Your Own Blockchain – The Basics¶
This tutorial will walk you through the basics of how to build a blockchain from scratch. Focusing on the details of a concrete example will provide a deeper understanding of the strengths and limitations of blockchains.  » Read More

Posted in Blockchains on March 16, 2017 by emunsing. 43 Comments
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I’m a Data Scientist & ML expert at Teza Technologies, studying energy markets and thinking about applications of machine learning, optimization tools, and blockchains.

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